Chapter Summaries

Wang Qi learned that Bei Feng was researching biological demonization and soul changes, then reluctantly processed the project's data using his mathematical skills. Bei Feng was astonished by Wang Qi's speed and insisted on checking the results before paying him.

• Wang Qi and Bei Feng realized they had been assigned to the same research project, and Wang Qi tried to withdraw from it.
• Bei Feng asked how Wang Qi had learned a lesser divine ability resembling Flame of Life, and Wang Qi explained that he had cultivated both the Tian Shang Jue and Tianyan Tulu.
• Wang Qi told Bei Feng that mathematics was his main field, so Bei Feng handed him research data to process.
• Wang Qi used his Mathematics artifact to calculate the data and finished before Bei Feng had changed into his fifth set of clothes.
• Wang Qi requested the agreed payment of three merit points and eighty shi of spiritual energy, but Bei Feng asked to check the calculations first.

Wang Qi completed Bei Feng’s research calculations with astonishing accuracy, then asked him to identify a collection of Innate Divine Runes taken from Ancient Method Cultivators. After Bei Feng labeled them, he stopped Wang Qi from leaving because the data had no errors.

• Wang Qi finished Bei Feng’s research data and asked to be paid in merit points.
• Bei Feng transferred the payment and continued examining Wang Qi’s flawless calculations.
• Wang Qi showed Bei Feng Innate Divine Runes and explained that they were spoils from Ancient Method Cultivators, not the result of illegal hunting.
• Bei Feng identified the runes and enthusiastically discussed the demon beasts they came from.
• Wang Qi began to leave, but Bei Feng grabbed his shoulder and insisted that he could not go because his calculations were correct.

Bei Feng brought Wang Qi to meet his senior brother, Chen Feng, a Yangshen Pavilion True Disciple and Enforcement Officer who ran a school for children of servants. Chen Feng recognized Wang Qi as the top-ranked candidate in the unified examination, after Wang Qi admitted he was the cultivator who had beaten a descendant of the Piao Yun Lin Family.

• Bei Feng extracted the dangerous Flame of Life aura from the nearby trees, then flew with Wang Qi into Divine Capital.
• Bei Feng brought Wang Qi to Chen Feng’s courtyard, where Chen Feng had turned part of it into a school for local children.
• Bei Feng explained that Chen Feng taught the children basic arithmetic and Modern Dharma because servants had few chances to advance.
• Chen Feng told Bei Feng he was exhausted from mediating after a cultivator beat up a descendant of the Piao Yun Lin Family, and Wang Qi admitted that he was the culprit.
• Chen Feng changed into his Sky Spirit Ridge ceremonial attire and greeted Wang Qi as the Myriad Dharma Sect’s top-ranked unified examination candidate.

Chen Feng showed Wang Qi his Yuan Spirit Empirical Division, a laboratory built to control spiritual energy during experiments, and asked him to join it. Wang Qi was left considering an invitation to work in one of the Divine Capital’s best-equipped research facilities.

• Wang Qi explained that he had come to the Divine Capital because of a congenital problem with his soul and the possibility that he was a banished immortal.
• Chen Feng said he needed help processing a large amount of data and invited Wang Qi to inspect his Empirical Division before discussing payment.
• Chen Feng led Wang Qi into the east wing, where an aura-severing formation and spirit-stabilizing formation maintained a controlled Yuan Spirit energy environment.
• Chen Feng showed Wang Qi the laboratory’s machinery, including a tunnel-scanning microscope, a constant-temperature formation, and a centrifuge.
• Chen Feng asked Wang Qi to join his Empirical Division.

Chen Feng tried to recruit Wang Qi into his empirical research division, and Wang Qi gradually became interested after learning about Chen Feng’s work on consciousness, the human heart, and calculating devices. Wang Qi finally asked two questions, leaving the invitation unresolved.

• Chen Feng invited Wang Qi to join his research division, but Wang Qi initially refused because his specialty was computational principles rather than the Path of Living Beings.
• Chen Feng argued that his research on behavioral genetics and evolution could complement Wang Qi’s interests, and offered to handle experiments while Wang Qi processed data.
• Wang Qi rejected the idea of being used as a calculating device and said the work would not advance his cultivation.
• Chen Feng explained his projects on the Essence of Soul and Spirit, consciousness, and the human heart, persuading Wang Qi that computational analysis of the human heart might suit his path.
• Chen Feng mentioned Yangshen Pavilion’s work on the Myriad Immortal Mirror, the Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm, and After Tomorrow’s Will, and Wang Qi asked two questions.
• The chapter ended with an author’s complaint that Great Wall Broadband had failed to repair the service after a day of waiting.

Wang Qi discussed the benefits of working with Chen Feng and learned that Chen Feng had mastered the Flame of Life and designed a top-grade Human Dao Dharma Foundation. After examining Chen Feng’s proposal, Wang Qi agreed to join his research, though the terms were still being negotiated.

• Wang Qi asked Chen Feng about his field of study and what benefits he could offer, and Chen Feng said he could provide merit value, spiritual energy, and guidance toward a flawless Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Feng revealed the Flame of Life and introduced himself as the first-place finisher of the Unified Entrance Trial three years earlier.
• Chen Feng told Wang Qi that he had cited Wang Qi’s paper and designed a top-grade Dharma Foundation called Human Dao.
• Wang Qi argued that helping Chen Feng design a Golden Core would be a greater contribution than receiving help with his Dharma Foundation.
• Wang Qi examined Chen Feng’s calculator, then clasped hands with him and agreed to the arrangement.

Wang Qi joined Chen Feng’s research team after discovering the valuable calculator Chen Feng owned, and he took experimental data to process while receiving access to research materials. Chen Feng explained that Bei Feng was temporarily helping at the laboratory while an antiquarian mission investigated a strange Demon Race ruin, and his effect on the lab mice had disrupted experiments.

• Wang Qi inspected Chen Feng’s Treasure Weapon calculator and agreed to join his team after discussing equipment access and paper authorship.
• Chen Feng gave Wang Qi experimental data to process and asked him to study the Path of Living Beings, offering to acquire mathematical books from Wang Qi’s list.
• Chen Feng told Wang Qi that the laboratory’s rear wing and kitchen were being renovated and that he was preparing supplies and feeding lab mice.
• Wang Qi asked about Bei Feng, and Chen Feng explained that Bei Feng had come from an antiquarian mission investigating a large Demon Race ruin near the Divine Capital.
• Chen Feng said the ruin’s spirit wards had been altered by an Ancient Method Cultivator, while Bei Feng’s unexplained method had made the lab mice overly excited and disrupted experiments.

Chen Feng tested Wang Qi's combat ability, then explained that Wang Qi needed to begin designing and verifying a Foundation Base for Foundation Establishment. Wang Qi received access to the Empirical Division's surplus spiritual energy to fund his research and materials.

• Chen Feng erased seven seconds of Wang Qi's short-term memories with his divine abilities and knocked him down, then praised his Qi Refining foundation.
• Chen Feng explained how weighted values were reduced when cultivators challenged opponents across realms, and Wang Qi acknowledged that he still needed to reach Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Feng gave Wang Qi jade pieces containing his Human Dao Foundation Base and outlined the practical and theoretical work required to design one.
• Wang Qi asked for an advance to buy materials, and Chen Feng gave him a shared Empirical Division spirit pool, arguing that the department's surplus energy should be spent before next month.

Wang Qi considered joining Chen Feng’s biology research group, bought supplies at the Immortal Alliance warehouse, and returned to the Myriad Dharma Sect residence late at night. There he found his fellow disciples celebrating Lin Feng’s breakthrough and joined their rooftop barbecue.

• Wang Qi weighed Chen Feng’s invitation against his research interests, political obstacles, and his questions about how he had transmigrated.
• Wang Qi visited the Immortal Alliance warehouse and bought materials for his own tests and Chen Feng’s experiments.
• Wang Qi returned to the Myriad Dharma Sect residence and found Mo Zhenzhen, Lin Feng, and the others holding a rooftop barbecue to celebrate Lin Feng’s breakthrough to the middle stage of Qi Refining.
• Wang Qi joined the gathering, ate leftover chicken, and told Mo Zhenzhen that working with Chen Feng had brought him benefits.

Wang Qi tried to experiment with reagents and refine a calculating artifact, but realized he lacked the practical knowledge to begin. He turned to writing a paper on Poisson’s Law of Large Numbers and planned to discuss it with Bo Xiaoya before finishing it.

• After returning from a meal, Wang Qi could not sleep and examined the materials in the storage pouch he had retrieved from the Divine Capital storehouse.
• Wang Qi put away an expensive reagent and decided to try refining a calculating artifact from jade and radiant iron.
• Wang Qi admitted to Zhen Chanzi that he did not know the first step of artifact refinement because he had skipped the basic theory course.
• Wang Qi abandoned the artifact project and began writing a paper about Poisson’s Law of Large Numbers.
• Wang Qi set aside his unfinished paper and decided to discuss it with Bo Xiaoya before continuing.

Wang Qi considered his next mathematical project and rejected Mingzhu's calculation before realizing his knowledge of the Peano axioms might connect to Hilbert's Program. He found Feng Luoyi's paper on Hilbert's proof theory and concluded that Divine Land's different path in mathematical logic was promising.

• Wang Qi left his proof of the Poisson law of large numbers unfinished so he could discuss it with Bo Xiaoya.
• Zhen Chanzi suggested Wang Qi work on Mingzhu's calculation, but Wang Qi dismissed it and explained its connection to Goldbach's Conjecture.
• Wang Qi reflected on why he remembered the Peano axioms and connected them to Hilbert's Program, Gödel's incompleteness result, and Turing's work.
• Wang Qi searched the Immortal Alliance's paper archive and found Feng Luoyi's paper, On Hilbert's So-Called Proof.
• Wang Qi read the paper's conclusion and excitedly decided that Divine Land's different approach to mathematical logic was a good path.

Chen Feng went to the Myriad Dharma Sect grounds to confront Wang Qi for missing their meeting, but found him absorbed in an unusual cultivation-like experiment. The chapter ended as Wang Qi countered Li Yue’s attack with Sword Qi.

• Chen Feng arrived at the Myriad Dharma Sect grounds in anger because Wang Qi had failed to report to work or explain his absence.
• Huangfu Lian, Li Yue, Liu Yunxiang, and Mo Zhenzhen learned why Chen Feng had come, and Mo Zhenzhen said Wang Qi had stayed in his room all day.
• Li Yue broke down Wang Qi’s door and found him manipulating papers with magnetized water while engrossed in his work.
• Li Yue sent a ball of frigid wind toward Wang Qi to wake him, but Wang Qi sensed it and thrust his pen forward, firing Sword Qi.

Wang Qi’s mathematically grounded sword strike overwhelmed Li Yue’s attack, and Chen Feng used the Flame of Life to disperse it without disrupting Wang Qi’s breakthrough. As Wang Qi pursued a proof about arithmetic, a sudden inspiration brought him new power.

• Wang Qi fired Sword Qi from his brush, and Liu Yunxiang, Chen Feng, and the others sensed the strike’s unusual depth.
• Wang Qi’s Sword Qi crumbled Li Yue’s attack, and Chen Feng stopped her from striking again because Wang Qi’s soul was transforming.
• Chen Feng’s soul-power shield also failed to stop Wang Qi’s Sword Qi, so he used the Flame of Life to absorb its order and disperse it.
• Wang Qi sat down and resumed writing as spiritual-energy fluctuations signaled his breakthrough.
• Wang Qi’s derivation stalled until chaotic spiritual power irritated him and prompted an idea: sever it with one sword strike.

Wang Qi completed a proof of Gödel's Completeness Theorem in a single day, triggering a dramatic surge in his cultivation. After realizing how quickly he had written the paper, he asked everyone to leave him alone and wondered whether he was truly capable of such a feat.

• Wang Qi wrote that first-order predicate calculus was complete, and the Yin Yang Yao within him shattered and then began condensing in doubled numbers.
• Chen Feng arrived at the Myriad Dharma Sect and learned that Wang Qi had stood him up for only one day.
• Wang Qi asked Chen Feng, Zhen Chanzi, and Liu Yunxiang whether he had written the paper, then collapsed in disbelief when they confirmed it.
• Wang Qi asked the gathered disciples to leave so he could be alone, while Liu Yunxiang led them outside.
• Wang Qi reflected that his proof was correct and marveled that he had derived Gödel's Completeness Theorem in a single day.

Wang Qi completed a proof of Gödel's Completeness Theorem and realized his mathematical ability surpassed his previous life's. He began revising the paper to fit Shenzhou's mathematical framework, where Gödel's absence had left a break in the history of logic.

• Wang Qi accepted that his proof was a major achievement and that his abilities had grown far beyond those of his previous life.
• Wang Qi decided to review and polish his paper using concepts and methods familiar to Shenzhou's mathematicians.
• Wang Qi borrowed eighty merit points from Chen Feng to obtain research papers and monographs, agreeing to work for him for a month and a half in return.
• Chen Feng told the others he planned to bring Wang Qi into his empirical department and submitted an application to Liu Yunxiang.
• Wang Qi studied Shenzhou's set theory and learned that Gödel had never existed there, leaving the so-called golden diagonal broken.
• Wang Qi announced that he would be busy polishing his paper for the next few days.

Wang Qi’s paper on mathematical logic sparked intense discussion among the Myriad Dharma Sect’s leading cultivators and mathematicians across Shenzhou. As its implications began to spread, Wang Qi remained unaware of the tide he had set in motion.

• Xiboche and his fellow Mathematicians discussed their work with renewed fervor.
• Bo Yage summoned the Bo family and presented Wang Qi’s paper, prompting Bo Yuehan and the others to examine it.
• Divine Lord Bai Ze praised Wang Qi’s work to Su Junyu and warned that it could lead to revisions of many Myriad Dharma Sect cultivation methods.
• Old Man Ji sang atop a towering mechanical pillar on Fusang Island, inspired by Wang Qi’s paper.
• A wide-ranging discussion of Wang Qi’s paper spread across Shenzhou, while Wang Qi did not realize its impact.

Feng Luoyi and Xiboche discussed how the Singing Court could support Wang Qi amid the Immortal Alliance’s hostility toward banished immortals, while Wang Qi taught Bo Xiaoya about the Law of Large Numbers. After proposing that they work on a paper together, Wang Qi was challenged to spar.

• Feng Luoyi stopped Xiboche’s gathering to discuss how they should handle the paper’s author, and Xiboche revealed Wang Qi’s identity and conflict with Chen Jingyun.
• Xiboche said the Singing Court would support Wang Qi, prompting the cultivators to consider how to protect him from the Immortal Alliance’s hostility toward banished immortals.
• Wang Qi explained Bo’s Law of Large Numbers to Bo Xiaoya after spending six days researching and refining his work.
• Wang Qi proposed that he and Bo Xiaoya each bring an outline to discuss co-writing a paper, then said he would go catch up on sleep.
• Bo Xiaoya asked whether Wang Qi’s recent paper had improved his strength and challenged him to spar.

Wang Qi and Bo Xiaoya set up a simulated sword-fighting match in the Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm, eager to test themselves against a fellow practitioner of the Way of Calculation. After realizing they had both been holding back to mimic their martial examination skills, they prepared to fight at full strength.

• Wang Qi and Bo Xiaoya agreed to spar, then configured a full-simulation fighting platform using a specialized plug-in.
• Bo Xiaoya attacked with the Great Numbers Sword, and Wang Qi countered with staff, spear, and dual-sword techniques.
• Wang Qi and Bo Xiaoya realized they had both been probing each other using only the abilities they had shown in the martial examination.
• Wang Qi called Bo Xiaoya a fellow traveler and declared he would go all out, and Bo Xiaoya agreed to do the same.

Wang Qi and Bo Xiaoya fought an evenly matched duel after both reached late Qi Refining, and Wang Qi showcased his all-around cultivation breakthrough. His decisive Complete Sword was disrupted by a strange effect, leaving him eliminated and unable to reproduce the attack without colored blocks appearing.

• Wang Qi discovered that Bo Xiaoya had also reached late Qi Refining, and the two began fighting.
• Wang Qi explained how his mathematical logic breakthrough had strengthened his Yao Ding Suanjing and other abilities as he exchanged attacks with Bo Xiaoya.
• Bo Xiaoya adapted to Wang Qi's sword intent, while Wang Qi used Unpredictable Steps and set-theory techniques to keep fighting.
• Wang Qi unleashed his Complete Sword, but irregular colored blocks appeared beneath it as Bo Xiaoya's Magic Seal struck him and eliminated him.
• Wang Qi tried to slash the air with the Complete Sword, but the colored blocks kept appearing, and he called the ruined attack Mosaic Slash.

Wang Qi’s One-Step Sword appeared as a mosaic in the Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm, and Feng Luoyi explained that the realm could not reflect a technique grounded in logic beyond its foundations. Wang Qi also revealed a second ability: spotting gaps in an opponent’s sword art and striking them.

• Wang Qi struggled to understand why his One-Step Sword appeared as a mosaic, while Bo Xiaoya wondered whether it was an unprecedented top-tier art.
• Wang Qi explained that his sword art drew on first-order predicate logic and could only produce one complete, valid strike, which he had named Just One-Step Sword.
• Wang Qi and Bo Xiaoya tried the move again, but it still appeared as a mosaic in the illusion realm.
• Feng Luoyi arrived and explained that the calculator and illusion realm rested on mathematical foundations their creators had not fully understood, so they could not reflect Wang Qi’s logic-based sword art.
• Feng Luoyi judged the One-Step Sword to be at least a weight-four art that might reach weight six if refined.
• Wang Qi revealed that he could detect incompleteness in complex sword arts and named the counterattack If there be discord, I shall strike it.